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About Me

I'm an SF writer whose novels Have been published by Swimming Kangaroo Books, a small press in the US until now. However, my next novel Winter Song will be published worldwide by Harper Collins new imprint Angry Robot Books in October 2009.
I'm married, and we have a blue rowan spaniel called Alice.
I also blog on Suite101.com - take a look sometime.
If you want to keep track of me, click on this link.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other SF readers and writers; Fellow Liverpool fans; Doctor Who fans; People who like to travel.

My Blog

And The Winners Are....

While I was writing the blog post on the BSFA, I suddenly realized that I hadn't announced the results of the awards. So here they are: The BSFA Awards for the best works in 2008 were presented at Eas...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:25:00 GMT

What Do Editors DO?

The second blog posting inspired by the debate at the Guardian Book Blog, here at Suite101
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:24:00 GMT

In Defence of Editors

Following an interesting blog at the Guardian, I decided to post this at Suite101.
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:13:00 GMT

The BSFA

Today's blog at Suite101 is an appreciation of those splendid chaps and chappesses of the British Science Fiction Assosciation. And doubtless you'll get the usual scare tactic warnings from MySpace wh...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:51:00 GMT

Eastercon Monday

Here's the link to the latest blog post on Suite101, about the last day of Eastercon. And you can ignore the standard MySpace bollocks about leaving the site.
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:56:00 GMT

Polluto 4 Reviewed

So horrible is the blog function on MySpace (it takes me about six attempts to have it formatted so that it isn't filled with crap and looks like it was designed by a two year old) that I'm simply goi...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:56:00 GMT

Saturday At Eastercon

The reason that you're only reading about Saturday at Eastercon on the following Tuesday is that unlike last year at Heathrow, there was no free wi-fi either in the con or my hotel. So with much grumb...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:00 GMT

Back From The Dead -- Or At Least Eastercon

To someone used to near constant internet presence it feels like the same thing. The blog that follows was originally to be posted Saturday, and why it wasn't will come in the one that was intended fo...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:55:00 GMT

Asimovs June 2009 Reviewed

Today's Blog is given over to my other job - that of reviewer at Suite101, where I'm Featured Writer for SF (or to use their classification sci-fi/ fantasy), where I seem to have defaulted to posting ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:23:00 GMT

Two-Novel Sale

I've been sitting on this since the initial offer last November, but today I signed a two-book deal with Angry Robot Books, the new division of HarperCollins.Winter Song will be published in October 2...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:39:00 GMT